Thursday, November 30, 2017

Sarah Vowell - Unfamiliar Fishes (2011) - Music by Grant Lee Phillips


Unfamiliar Fishes is a nonfiction book by This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell, first published in 2011 in print and audiobook versions. An unabridged audiobook was released by Simon & Schuster on March 22, 2011. It contained a large cast of readers, and music was performed by Michael Giacchino and Grant-Lee Phillips

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Gentlemen's Circle Feat. William Prince, Nick Panken, Grant-Lee Phillips, Colter Wall, Aodán Coyne & A. J. Croce - Tønder Festival, DK - 2017-08-27







01. Intro by Dorthe Gerlach
02. Thirteen Silver Dollars - Colter Wall
03. Something's Gotta Give - Grant Lee Philips
04. It Does not bother Me - Nick Panken (Spirit Family Reunion)
05. They Put Us Wrong - Aodán Coyne (Socks in the Frying Pan)
06. New Song - William Prince
07. Curious Just like Medicine - A. J. Croce
08. New Song - Colter Wall
09. Unruly Mobs - Grant Lee Philips
10. In the Manner that it Came - Nick Panken (Spirit Family Reunion)
11. Irelands Struggle - Aodán Coyne (Socks in the Frying Pan)
12. Little Things - William Prince
13. The Roads - A. J. Croce
14. Saskatchewan 1881 - Colter Wall
15. Another, Another, Then Boom - Grant Lee Philips
16. New Song - Nick Panken (Spirit Family Reunion)
17. New Song - Aodán Coyne (Socks in the Frying Pan)
18. Earthly Days - William Prince
19. The Other Side of Love - A. J. Croce
20. Outro by Dorthe Gerlach

Audience recording at dime and here
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Grant Lee Phillips' New Album (2018) "Widdershins"

Grant Lee Phillips' New Album (2018) Widdershins available February 23, 2018 from Yep Records


“I’m drawing on the urgency of the moment,” reflects Grant-Lee Phillips. “The things that eat away in the late hours…”

That urgency inspired the headlong rush of Widdershins – available February 23 via Yep Roc – in which Grant-Lee Phillips invests the insight, nuance, and wit that has distinguished his songcraft over the past three decades in a riveting dissection of today’s fraught social landscape. Beneath the moment’s tumultuous veneer, Phillips uncovers resonances spanning centuries – patterns echoing from the present day to the distant past. Its twelve tracks were cut largely live in the studio with the sharp  trio of Phillips (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Jerry Roe (drums), and Lex Price (bass) serving as messengers. Says Phillips, “This moment is explosive, volatile, and heightened. It’s important to me that the music reflect that...”


By turns sardonic, provocative, and illuminating, Widdershins (produced by Phillips and mixed by Tucker Martine) delivers its poetic truths through Phillips’s peerless melodic sensibilities, carefully balancing intensity and vulnerability. A now seasoned songwriter and performer, with more than two decades' experience first as frontman of the acclaimed Grant Lee Buffalo then as an accomplished solo artist, Phillips awakens comfort and hope by shining light into darker corners. “I hope to express my faith in people, my faith in the good ideas we’re capable of, and that regardless of what opposition we face, the fact that we can surmount these things,” he concludes. “We can stare them down, laugh at them, belittle them, and drive the darkness back into a hole.” 

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Saturday, February 18, 2017